At 5/9/13 08:48 AM, Dean wrote:
A 4 hour exam? Wow. None of my exams were ever longer than 2 hours. Seems like a long time to be writing. Bet you're glad it's over though!

We had to demonstrate step by step process in diagrams of a heap sort with a heap that had 3 levels. That was just part b) of 1 of the 9 questions. If we missed a single step in the process, we got a 0 for the question.

Not only that, but we were not allowed to leave the room not even for bathroom that would of been a 0. We were not allowed to have a phone go off in the exam or even take water breaks.

At 5/9/13 09:08 AM, PMMurphy wrote:
Not only that, but we were not allowed to leave the room not even for bathroom that would of been a 0. We were not allowed to have a phone go off in the exam or even take water breaks.

Do you live in a country ruled by some kind of mad dictator? Surely in the civilised world they wouldn't be allowed to lock you in a room for 4 hours, tell you that you're not allowed to go for a piss or have a drink. That just seems absurd.

I always hated hand-written programming exams, they seem a bit irrational considering it would be way quicker and easier to grade if they allowed the students to use the computer like they would in a real-life scenario.

At 5/15/13 12:03 AM, Pilot-Doofy wrote:
I always hated hand-written programming exams, they seem a bit irrational considering it would be way quicker and easier to grade if they allowed the students to use the computer like they would in a real-life scenario.

Professors love to see students erase the whole paper on final exam. They argue that hand writing can give students great way to memorize the programs. It only worked once during an interview when I have to do a fizzbuzz in PHP for about 5 minutes.

At 5/28/13 12:26 PM, Elitistinen wrote:
Professors love to see students erase the whole paper on final exam. They argue that hand writing can give students great way to memorize the programs. It only worked once during an interview when I have to do a fizzbuzz in PHP for about 5 minutes.

But that's still silly because you don't need to memorize anything. The best/useful programmers aren't the ones who can program mundane algorithms quickly or off the top of their head.

At 5/28/13 12:26 PM, Elitistinen wrote:
Professors love to see students erase the whole paper on final exam. They argue that hand writing can give students great way to memorize the programs. It only worked once during an interview when I have to do a fizzbuzz in PHP for about 5 minutes.

LOL

If your professors are looking for handwriting they woulda hated my code.

Also i did my exam in pen.

Instead of erasing my mistakes. I simply just crumbled up sheets of papers everytime i messed up and re did the diagrams.

So ever 2 minutes or so you would hear me in the corner of the room crumbling up a sheet of paper. I filled an empty trash-can of paper.

Before i did this i asked my professor if he cared about trees. He said no :)